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I'm dying, but so are you

Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Political Scientist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Christopher Eric Hitchens
Dying
Inspirational

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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
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I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.
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I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
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Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.
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The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.
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History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.
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When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
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